Paul Salsbury

Expertise

Paul is a Partner in the Real Estate Finance. He has extensive experience of banking and finance, specialising in UK and pan-European real estate finance.

He acts for numerous financial institutions based in the UK and Asia on a wide range of matters (including many leading providers of senior and mezzanine debt finance to the real estate sector) as well as numerous investor and developer clients based in the PRC , Hong Kong , Singapore and Malaysia. Clients include AgFe, Bank of London and The Middle East, Canada Life, Castle Trust, C C Land , Lembaga Tabung Haji, Helaba, HSBC, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) , Longbow, Santander, Sumi Trust and Wellesley Finance Limited.

Paul is recognised by independent commentators as one of the UK's leading real estate finance lawyers.

Bayerische Landesbank and a multibank syndicate in relation to the funding of the £557 million acquisition by funds managed by JP Morgan Asset Management of Bishops Square, Spitalfields, London E1, comprising a 850,000 sq ft office development let to international law firm, Allen & Overy, and 50 sq ft of retail space

Dandara Group Holdings Limited in connection with its senior and mezzanine facilities from HSBC Bank and Homes and Communities Agency in relation to the UK's largest single "build to rent" development portfolio platform in the PRS sector with development schemes in Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham comprising over 2000 units and with a planned refinance from the Governments residential bond programme (PRS Housing Guarantee Scheme) managed by Venn Capital Partners LLP

Employees Provident Fund of Malaysia on its £132 million syndicated murabaha facility from Standard Chartered Bank secured on a portfolio of 5 properties

Helaba, which involved a £197 million syndicated facility to LondonMetric Property plc secured on ten retail distribution centres with a value exceeding £220 million

Helaba and Handelsbanken on a £325 million syndicated facility to Tesco British Land Properties Ltd (a joint venture between Tesco plc and British Land) secured on a portfolio of eight Tesco tenanted shopping centres

HUB Residential in relation to a £97.5 million syndicated development facility to fund the construction of the 360-unit, twin-towered Hoola London Development at London's Royal Docks

Tabung Haji on a £225 million syndicated Murabaha facility to finance 151, Buckingham Palace Road, London and another landmark building in Gresham Street, London

United Overseas Bank on its £130 million facility to a JPUT structure secured on Intu Shopping Centre Uxbridge

"Deemed by peers as "personable, outgoing and extremely commercial", Salsbury has a broad based practice anchored by strong lender-lead work.”

"Salsbury wins market approval as a highly active deal maker and [is] acclaimed for his "no nonsense approach and can do attitude", [ for being] "not just a high-brow technical lawyer but also commercial, and "knowing what's important and never wasting time on the small stuff"."

"[He] has an absolutely incredible depth of knowledge; he can advise instantly about the most specific questions concerning any transaction he is working on."Chambers